> And the
>risk of it being worse is significant; browsers might be turned into a
>font police, responsible for displaying or enforcing licenses.
Ascender's proposal explicitly states they do not want nor expect user agents
to enforce licensing.
>Also,
>It will send the "wait-we're-not-ready-yet" message which is
>disruptive to contemporary implemetations.
IE is not a contemporary implementation ? Or is it inherently OK to be incompatible with it ?
We - browser and font vendors - have already sent this message, Hakon. It's either a) stick
to free fonts and serve them in two encodings or use commercial fonts and forget non-IE browsers.
How can this situation be construed as 'ready' or not disruptive ?
>Not at all. But before starting a new heroic endeavour, it makes sense
>to look around to see if we already have a solution.
Like EOT ? :)
>This doesn't mean that your ideas of having a generic wrapper format
>is bad. But I wouldn't apply it to fonts first.
Or it wouldn't have to be generic, thereby ensuring much faster agreement and implementation.